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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities. Most banks consider their securities portfolio as first and foremost for liquidity.

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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

They announced another quantitative easing program—this time, QE3—part 2, in which they will buy $45 billion a month in Treasury bonds in addition to the $40 billion per month of mortgage backed securities that they are buying for QE3. The tax bracket changes become permanent and that will allow planning to resume.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

They have seemed fairly nervous about their large balance sheet, so in September, 2017, they announced that they would allow bonds to mature or pay off in October- by $4 billion in Agency mortgage backed securities and $6 billion in Treasuries, for a total of $10 billion. Tax cut and tax reform proposals have been floated.

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Guest Post: Second Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

On June 28th, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act as constitutional, calling penalties on individuals for failing to purchase health insurance a “tax.” This decision sets in motion a series of steps to implement the law over the next few years along with the estimated $813 billion in taxes and levies over the next ten years.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

trillion in Agency mortgage backed securities. Physical security costs ramped up over the past 15 years; just ask the airlines and Homeland Security. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004. Remember all of the quantitative easing, or “QE,” purchase programs?

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Guest Post: First Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

So far, about half of the positive economic impact of the surprise 2% reduction in social security taxes and small business tax cuts are gone because of higher gas prices. for 2011 earlier this year after the surprise tax cuts for consumers and businesses. and equal to the average rate of GDP growth from 2000 to 2004.

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Guest Post: Fourth Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Congress entered the mix and extended the Bush tax cuts for two years and unexpectedly added new tax cuts for consumers and businesses. Combined these tax breaks can provide up to 0.5% Combined these tax breaks can provide up to 0.5% Dorothy has been with First Federal of Bucks County since November, 2004.